It is a burlesque presenting the issues raised solemnly in Parangodi Parinayam also has a plot similar to that of Vidyavinodini in which the latter had despised the profusion of substandard imitations of Ramankutty Menon was inspired to write this novel on reading an article by Vengayil Kunjiraman Nayanar in the magazine Parangodi Parinayam, however, has not received any commendable critical acclaim in Malayalam literature to this date. Indulekha, the hero and heroine decide to wait for some more before getting married in keeping with the English custom of courting. However, the lovers do not enter into marriage immediately. The novel ends with Parangodan Marar’s realisation that Parangodikutty has not been married to Pangassa Menon as was believed. In the course of the explanations, he critiques the defects that had crept in when English education, customs and manners were introduced in the country. Pangassa Menon tries to convince his mother his reasons for rejecting Parangodikutty. She writes about this to Parangodan Marar and both of them are worried.īut, to the shock of Parangodikutty who is under the impression that Pangassa Menon was enamoured by her, the latter decides to marry Ammukutty, who he feels would more fit more easily into his tharavad. The situation gets tense when Parangodikutti’s relatives decide to marry her to her uncle Kandappa Menon’s son Pangassa Menon. From their childhood, they had decided to marry each other. The heroine is Parangodikutty, also schooled in Western ways like Indulekha. The hero is Parangodan Marar, an English educated lawyer like Madhavan.

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The novel tells the story of the love affair between the young and beautiful Indulekha and Madhavan, both members of the same Nair tharavad, Poovally. But more than that, this novel is a fine social document, detailing the changes that took place in society in general and the Nair community in particular.

It initiated the genre in the language, and is therefore considered a landmark text in the history of Malayalam literature. It was the first attempt to fulfil the aesthetic requirements of the novel as an art form in Malayalam. Indulekha, written by Oyyarathu Chandu Menon in Malayalam, was published in the year 1889.

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